Assign random material colour to sub-object? (3dsmax)

sampson

Hi does anyone know of a way to randomly assign a colour material to sub-objects or objects in a scene?

e.g you have a lot of bricks and then each one gets a random colour (that way when it comes to texturing you can bake a diffuse map and have control over slight colour variations)

sorry if i havent explained it well enough.

Thanks

Michael Knubben

Check out textools, it just added that option

sprunghunt

use the "material by element" modifier

it's part of the standard max install

renderhjs

yup has been added recently to texTools:
http://www.renderhjs.net/texTools



you can strip down the code yourself if all you need is assigning it to your current object, and not rendering a texture map.

although I choose not to use random colors but portioned colors of the HSV range instead so that a maximum color contrast among the shells is given.


edit: so many australia guys here - I am going to move soon to sydney myself

sampson

Thanks guys!!